The complete works, poetry and prose, of the Rev. Edward Young prefixed, a life of the author, by John Doran ... With eight illustrations on steel, and a portrait. In two volumes

Young, Edward (1683-1765)

[VOLUME 1]

NIGHT THOUGHTS ON LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY:

PREFACE.

THE COMPLAINT.

NIGHT I. ON LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY.

II.

NIGHT II. ON TIME, DEATH, AND FRIENDSHIP.

III.

NIGHT III. NARCISSA.

IV.

NIGHT IV. THE CHRISTIAN TRIUMPH.

PREFACE.

[dedication]

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NIGHT V. THE RELAPSE.

VI.

NIGHT VI. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED. IN TWO PARTS. CONTAINING THE NATURE, PROOF, AND IMPORTANCE OF IMMORTALITY. PART I.

VII.

NIGHT VII. BEING THE SECOND PART OF THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED: CONTAINING THE NATURE, PROOF, AND IMPORTANCE OF IMMORTALITY.

VIII.

NIGHT VIII. VIRTUE'S APOLOGY; OR, THE MAN OF THE WORLD ANSWERED.

THE CONSOLATION.

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II.

[VOLUME II.]

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Is it in Time to hide Eternity?

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And why not in an atom on the shore
To cover ocean? or a mote, the sun?
Glory and wealth! have they this blinding power?
What, if to them I prove Lorenzo blind?
Would it surprise thee? Be thou then surprised:
Thou neither know'st: their nature learn from me.

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